Chapter 668: Heartless 2 (1/2)

“Get out of here! Miss Yuan, go back to your room and prepare for your marriage. If you dare to plot anything else, I’ll destroy you myself!”

Chu Yuan collapsed onto the chaise, her eyes bloodshot from her own rage, “Father, I’ll never marry that idiot! Even if I have to die!”

“Hmph! That’s not up to you! Servants! Send your young miss back to her room! If anything happens to Eighth Miss, all of you had better prepare for death!” Chu Qizheng was especially ferocious today. Even Second Madam had been scared into trembling, let alone the servants at the side.

Miss Yuan screamed and struggled, to no avail. Two strong menial servants stuffed a handkerchief in her mouth and tied up her limbs, and she was quickly carted away.

It wasn’t until Chu Yuan’s muffled shouts could no longer be heard that Second Madam seemed to rouse herself, as if awakening from a dream. She was helped off the floor by a maidservant.

She walked over to Chu Qizheng and stared up at him, “Chu Qizheng! Yuan’er is our only daughter! How could you treat her this way?! Is your official position more important than your own flesh and blood?”

Chu Qizheng let out a mocking snort. He threw the letter in his hands onto Second Madam’s face. “Position? Is this the official position you’re talking about?!”

Second Madam didn’t understand. She bore with the humiliation and picked up the letter from the ground. She opened it and read it, only to be hit by a bolt from the blue!

It wasn’t just a letter. It was an official document of dismissal.

The second branch had lost everything today!

Second Madam had already reached her limits today. Her eyes rolled back into her head as she slipped into a dead faint.

Luckily, the maidservant next to her reacted fast enough to catch her, otherwise she would have hit her head on the floor.

Thus, when Second Madam woke up again, she never said a word about rejecting her daughter’s engagement.

All that the impoverished second branch could count on was Chu Yuan’s marriage now.

Sometimes, when faced with a cruel reality, one just had to make some ‘sacrifices’.

Right now, it had become time for Miss Yuan to make the sacrifice.

Chu Qizheng still didn’t understand why he had suddenly been fired out of the blue. The couple of the second branch sat on two sides of the chaise with gloomy faces.

Chu Qizheng suddenly asked, “How much is left of Madam Ye’s money?”

Second Madam was startled by his abrupt question. She waved her trusted handmaid over and told her to retrieve the account books. After reading them over, she said, “Excluding storefronts and farms, there’s still five thousand taels in cash.”

“Give it all to me.”

Second Madam gaped in surprise, “All of it?”

That was five thousand taels they were talking about! It wasn’t a small sum.

Chu Qizheng’s heavy gaze swept over Second Madam.

She quickly sprang up and went to retrieve an exquisite peach wood chest. She took out two silver keys from her purse and opened the chest, before pulling out a whole stack of banknotes from within and passing it to Chu Qizheng.

Second Madam kept staring at the thick stack of notes with heartache.